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GREEN OCEANS VENTURE CAPITALBarbados as a Global Hub for Knowledge about Oceans Research and Fisheries
SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY OF WEST INDIES AT CAVE HILL OCTOBER 13th, 2011
www.jimdewilde.net
THE NEW HORIZONS OF INVESTMENT Preserving shared heritage ecosystems
(rainforests, coral reefs, oceans) The intersection of health, environment
and agriculture (food preservation, food quality management, nutrition management, bioremediation, incineration, industrial biotechnology).
Economic implications of marine ecology Cost of toxic algae Opportunities for new sensing technolog
y in robotic fish
Marine resource management as an environmental trust issue
New sources of value in a global green economy Sustainability has value Acosta and the creation of value from
ECUADOR rain forests Arable land as a gold standard Daewoo and Madagascar East African botanicals and the need for
specialized agricultural lands
The trends in global capital allocation CASE STUDY INVENTAGES AGRICULTURE 2.0
NEW SEED ADVISORS
Oceans and marine ecology knowledge as a cornerstone of environmental restoration
There is no famine when communities can fish
Ocean mining, ocean drilling have to be turned into green industries
Water management and nutrient production are cornerstones of the new global economy.
GREEN OCEANS AGENDA - Barbados GLOBAL HUB GREEN OCEANS VENTURE
CAPITAL (nanocomposites, coral transplants, aquaculture, wave energy) with capacity to invest and build companies to scale. See as model: AQUAGROFUND.
UWI MARINE ECOLOGY/OCEAN SCIENCES as a scientific centre. Building collaborative networks online re oceans agenda.
Green Oceans Commercializing fisheries management Commercializing oceans management
KEY TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE
OCEANA
MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL
UBC FISHERIES RESEARCH
GLOBAL POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF OCEANS MANAGEMENT The scale of the commitment
CASE STUDIES: MAURITIAN OCTOPUS INDONESIAN SEAWEED
CASE STUDIES FOR COURSE ON GREEN OCEAN VENTURES 1. Underwater mining NAUTILUS 2. Jellyfish as global warming indicator 3. Fish barcode 4. Indonesian seaweed 5. Mauritanian octopus 6. Sea cucumbers and nanocomposites 7. Coral reef regeneration 8. Ecological aquaculture TILAPIA 9. Mussels and adhesives 10. Wave energy
NETWORK OF EXPERTISE FROM THESE CASE STUDIES Management of ocean resources Application of new materials Expertise in ecological heritage
management (coral reefs, ocean ecosystem)
Fisheries inventory and green fishing strategies
Global environment – MAURITANIAN OCTOPUS
MAURITANIAN OCTOPUS
Wall Street Journal article in 2007
Sustainable sushi
Mauritanian fishing
Global marine sciences research KAUST in Saudi Arabia
WOODS HOLE
Case Study CORAL REGENERATION
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa
“We have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef,” said Mineo Okamoto, a marine biologist at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (New York Times April 15th, 2009)
Case studies ocean industries – wave energy University College Cork’s Hydraulics and
Maritime Research Centre
Ecological Aquaculture
John Volpe University of Victoria Barry Costa-Pierce Global aquaculture
Venture capital in AQUACULTURE, see Aquacopia
Case study oceans research -nanocomposites Sea Cucumbers and Nanotechnology Lead to Plastics That Can Change Softness When Exposed to Liquids
Strategic alliances between companies and GREEN OCEANS Starkist Acciona (water management) Vivendi (water management) Nautilus Minerals (underwater mining) Danish fish production industry Wave energy companies, e.g. OWEC ,
Pelamis, Ocean Power Technologies
BARBADOS AS A CLUSTER OF GREEN OCEAN INDUSTRIES MARINE ECOLOGY GLOBAL FISHERIES GLOBAL ENERGY GLOBAL MINING NEW MATERIALS
Case Study Underwater Mining UNDERWATER MINING INSTITUTE AT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
For more on global underwater mining see UNDERWATER MINING and UNDERSEA MINING.
GREEN OCEANS VENTURESECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES Knowledge about marine conservation
and regeneration Commercializing marine biology and
marine ecology Ocean industries (wave energy) New materials (biofuels, adhesives) Nutrition and global health (aquaculture
and conserving fish stock)
OCEANS RESEARCH AND GREEN VENTURE CAPITAL Oceans research is good for the environment
and an opportunity to create new sources of wealth
Coastal zone management (fisheries, reef management, beach erosion) a cornerstone of real estate
Food production and environmental quality are the new gold standard
Marine ecology a leading venture capital category in the 2010s and beyond
BARBADOS GREEN VENTURES PORTFOLIO (imagined 2021) Robotic Fish and Global Environmental
Sensing Coral Reef Regeneration and Fisheries
management Green Underwater mining technologies Wave energy New biomaterials from marine biology+ the entrepreneurial imagination of 1000s of young scientists doing things not imagined